dishes that travel well?

[jfaberna]

We are planning our first camping trip in the new Montana and I'm looking into glasses, dishes, bowls, cooking ware, etc. that travel well. And how best to store them on the Montana to minimize work, but protest them from breaking while on I-95 or any other poorly maintained road.

We have an old set of Temperware by Lenox that isn't getting used for anything. I thought that would be good to use in the RV because if it breaks, so what. But it is microwaveable stone type china that will break if you drop it onto a hard surface. I can transport them in a dish storage pack like you keep around to store the wedding china in but only use at Thanksgiving and Christmas, but would rather not if just stacking them in a cabinet is all I need to do.

I plan on lining all the cabinet with scoot cloth to keep things from sliding, but I'm not sure what is the best way to store china and glasses while traveling.

Wine glasses are really a challenge because we like our wine and can only drink it from a Riedel glass stem wine glass. Yes I know that makes us wine snobs, but it really makes a difference in taste. I can drink beer and bourbon right from the bottle, but that's another story.

What have others had good luck with?

[bncinwv]

Can't speak to the wine glasses, but we use the shelf liner material cut into small strips between plates, bowls, etc. to keep them from sliding across each other. All shelves are lined with the non-skid shelf liners available at Walmart or other stores. Coffee cups are placed upside down in a single layer on shelf liners as are glassware. With this method, we have never broken a plate, bowl or anything.We carry a couple of sets of primarily Corelle. Hopefully, I never just jinxed ourselves by saying this.
Bingo

[HOOK]

We put the shelf non skid stuff under everything. We have Melamine wear. We wrap the glass stemware with cloth and pack them is small basket.

[jfaberna]

Bingo,

So plates are the only thing you stack, but you use the scoot cloth liner between the plates? That sounds good, plus you can machine wash the scoot cloth.

Jim A

[jfaberna]

Larry,

We thought that we would have to wrap the stemware. I thought about maybe finding some Tupperware type containers that would keep stuff from bouncing around. Some of them have separators inside the containers. That gets expensive when you have to have special containers.

Jim A

[jfaberna]

I just Google'd scoot cloth and found that the name doesn't exist anymore. 20 years ago, it was The brand name of the non-skip shelf liner. My son gave me a bunch of rolls of the latest liner for Christmas. Beats a new tie, which I will never wear.

[bncinwv]

quote:Originally posted by jfaberna

Bingo,

So plates are the only thing you stack, but you use the scoot cloth liner between the plates? That sounds good, plus you can machine wash the scoot cloth.

Jim A

We stack plates and bowls. All glassware, cups and mugs are single layered if breakable. We stack plastic cups as well.

Bingo

[8.1al]

We have Corelle dishes, they are light and tough. All of our glasses are plastic. We use a non-skid liner on the shelves and just stack the plates and bowls with nothing between them and have never lost a one in 9 yrs of full timing.

[jfaberna]

Corelle was what we used back in the early '90 in our Class C and it was great. One of the kids ended up with that when we sold the MH.

[bigskyjimmy]

My wife brought all of our best china dishes when we went fulltime she just uses those foam rubber mats you put in your shelves at home and cuts them in little squares ,never had one broken dish in 3 years as far as our wine glasses I put a wine rack under our overhead cabinet in the kitchen and it holds 6 glasses and 2 bottles, when we travel she just wraps them up in cloth napkins and puts them in a cupboard till we get to our destination

[richfaa]

Bubble wrap and that shelf liner material. Helen wraps everything and I do not think we have ever broken a glass or dish.

Stuff will bounce around pretty good on about any road.

[TYR]

I use that rubber shelf lining stuff, too. Dishes (a couple of Corelle plates and then my "good" dish set which is actually china) are in the drawer under the oven/stove. Not only are they low to the ground and have not broken during transit, but the plates are even warmed a bit when the oven is on!

Other items are stored in overhead cabinets. Pots and pans in the drawer under the fridge. Wine glasses and DH's Samuel Adams beer glasses are wrapped in towels and tucked snugly amongst other items.

Even with the rear kitchen, we've never had anything break or go flying about while in transit.

[boat391]

I to love good wine and don't like plastic glasses so I built a box the fits in the rear center overhead cabinet holds eight glasses . I built it 2 high and four wide and lined each glass square with 1 inch foam used spray on adhesive to hold it it place looks good and works very well during travel I built a two case wine rack that stands just to the right of the entry door with room for the slide to go by with out interference just lay it on it's back for travel gives the wife a place to set her purse when entering the trailer or a place to set the leashes for the pups. We to use correlle and being a mid kitchen in all of our trailer have never had a broken dish yet and travel with real glasses too. We do put a little cloth line between the bowls some of the one's she has are her mothers and they are getting a little brittle. We do use the non skid lining in all cabinets too. Good luck hope this helps.

[jfaberna]

Tim,

Your ideas for the wine and wine glasses sound very nice. I may have to borrow some of those ideas.

[boat391]

Any time it works very well for us wine snobs. I live here in wine country so I have learned to like the good stuff.

[NCFischers]

Vickie will show you how we wrap things for travel. We've never broken anything. You can use rolls of paper towel in the cabinets to use as fillers so things don't move around. That way, you never run out of paper towels.

[JandC]

quote:Originally posted by 8.1al

We have Corelle dishes, they are light and tough. All of our glasses are plastic. We use a non-skid liner on the shelves and just stack the plates and bowls with nothing between them and have never lost a one in 9 yrs of full timing.

Same here with the Corelle. We went with the holders from CW so the plates don't move when stacked. We picked Corelle because it was light weight and goes in microwave. Most glasses are Turvis because they also are light weight and can go in the microwave. Turvis also has lifetime warranty. We have always tired to keep the load as light as possible.

[jpkelpe]

I use the non skid stuff on the shelves and just stack the plates and bowls together with nothing in between, as for wine glasses I can't stand plastic either and I put one of those foam cold drink coozies (the kind that fold flat) over the goblet part- sometimes I just leave them set up and sometimes i turn them upside down, anyway i have never had one break. other dishes like corning ware casserole I just put a piece of paper towel between the dish and lid. the only dish that has ever broke is the one i dropped on the counter top getting it out of the overhead cupboard. I have Corelle dishes and my "fine" wine glasses are from a thrift store, now if they were expensive ones they would probably break

[Artemus Gordon]

We have never lost a wine glass or plate. My wife uses the non skid material. For out plates she bought "felt sleeves " from Amazon. They work great. Also keep off dust!

[tweber502]

Our dinnerware is decorative melamine and we do not put anything in between the plates or bowls. We do line our shelves with the shelf liner from Wal-Mart. For our wine glasses we use the storage case in the link below. When in transit we place the wine glasses upside down and the case in the sofa drawer. Have never had anything break and roads here in Kentucky are awful! Pots and pans are kept in the drawer under the oven and in the cabinet above the microwave. Other drinking glasses are stackable plastic and coffee cups are single stacked upside down. Tim

http://www.amazon.com/Household-Esse...e+glass+holder